Changeable picture.



No. 800,560. PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905. W. FABER, A. FRIEDMANN, J. MENZEL& 0. SAEGER. GHANGEABLB PICTURE.

APPLIGATION FILED 00124, 1004.

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WILHELM FABER, OF OHARLOTTENBURG, ADOLF FRIEDMANN, OF BERLIN, AND JULIUSMENZEL AND OT O SAEGER, OF GHARLOTTENBURG,

GERMANY.

CHANGEABLE PICTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed October 4. 1904. Serial No. 227,115.

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that we, WVILHELM FABIGR, residing at Oharlottenburg, ADOLFFRIEDMANN, residing at Berlin, and JULIUs MENznL and OTTO SAEGER,residing at Charlottenburg, Germany, subjects of the Emperor of Germany,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ChangeablePictures, of which the following is a full, exact, and clearspecification.

This invention relates to a new or improved method of manipulatingtransparent pictures with the object of obtaining singular effects, suchas apparent movements, lifting of eyebrows, reddening of faces, and thegrowing of flowers, &c.; and it consists in the combination of one ormore transparent pictures with a main picture by bringing them into sucha position or positions that they combine with the main picture, thewhole being illuminated from the front, and according to this inventionone, two, or more pictures are brought into positionmechanically oneafter the other, so as to combine with and alter the effect of a mainpicture.

If two pictures only combine in producing an ultimate effect, the mainpicture only need be transparent; but if more than two pictures areemployed in the combination all are required to be transparent with theexception of the last one.

In order that this invention may be fully understood, it will now bedescribed with reference to the accompanying drawings, which illustrateby sectional diagrammatic views three alternative methods. of carryingthis invention into practice.

Referring to Figure 1, a transparent surface asuch asa sheet of glass,for instance is mounted behind an opening in the case 0, and upon thissurface the main picture is carried. Behind this main surface a sheet 7)of cloth, paper, or other suitable material carrying the part or partsintended to alter the main picture is arranged, the said sheet beingsecured at the top, while a suitable spring, such as a, normally keepsthe sheet 7) out of contact with the main picture a. To the lower end ofthe sheet Z) an electromagnet m is secured, entering partially into asolenoid (Z, so that upon the electric circuit being completed themagnet m is drawn into the solenoid (Z and the sheet 6 pulled againstthe main picture a and can now be seen therethrough, and

thus combines with the main picture to form a whole. As soon as themagnet m is released from the solenoid (Z the spring 0 draws the sheet 6away from the main picture.

According to the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, the auxiliary picture issecured to a frame f, hinged to the top of the main picture a, and aspring 9 normally retains it out of contact therewith. An electromagnetm and solenoid (Z are provided for the purpose of bringing it intocontact with the mainpicture, as in the form first described, thedifference being that in this arrangement the electromagnet m isoperated approximately horizontally instead of vertically.

According to the arrangement illustrated in Fig. 3, the frame 7,carrying the auxiliary picture, is operated pneumatically, for whichpurpose the said frame is preferably hinged to the bottom of the mainpicture, as shown, so as to normally fall out of contact therewith,while a small bellows v; is arranged between the top of the auxiliarypicture and the back of the casing c or other suitable fixed part. Aninfl ating-bulb l; communicates with the bellows 11 by means of atubular connection Z, so that by pressing the inflated ball the bellowsa is sufliciently inflated to raise the auxiliary picture into contactwith the main picture.

It is obvious that any number of auxiliary pictures may be employedwithin practical limits, which one after the other would be brought intoposition, as herein described, to combine with and alter the effect ofthe main picture.

Any suitable mechanism may be employed for obtaining a periodicallyrecurring changesuch, for instance, as a clock and an electromotor orthe like, the arrangement of which will be well understood.

Having now particularly described and as certained the nature of oursaid invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, wedeclare that what we claim is 1. In a picture for producing singulareffects the con'ibination with a stationary transparent picture of acorresponding movable picture provided with means to bring italternately in and out of contact with the stationary picture,substantially as described.

2. A com bination-picture comprising a stationary transparent pictureand a corresponding non-transparent movable picture, provided our names,this 7th day of September, 1904:, in the presence of the subscribingwitnesses.

VILHELM FABER. ADOLF FRIEDMANN. JULIUS MENZEL. OTTO SAEGER.

\Vitnesses:

ERNST KATZ, ALBERT SCHENK, W OLDEMAR HAUP'r, VILLIAM MAYNim.

